Fri, 02 Apr 2010

Introducing Sam460ex

ACube Systems is happy to announce the new Sam460ex board. This board will join the Sam family together with the Sam440ep-flex.

Based around the AMCC 460ex SoC, the board offers many modern features like: PCI express slots, SATA2 port, Giga Ethernet, DDR2 RAM.

This is the complete features list:

flex-ATX form factor (21.6 x 17 cm)

8 layers PCB

AMCC 460ex SoC – upto 1.066 Ghz

max 2 GB DDR2 Ram – 200-pin SODIMM up to 533 Mhz

Silicon Motion SM502 embedded MoC (audio/video) max 64MB Gfx RAM

Audio 5.1 Realtek ALC655 codec

PCI-express 4x lanes slot (16x mechanical connector)

PCI-express 1x lane slot (* check notes below)

PCI slot, 32 bit, 66/33 Mhz, 3.3V

1x SATA2 port (* see notes below)

6x USB2 EHCI/OHCI ports

2x 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports

Lattice XP2 FPGA with 80 I/O pins expansion connector (optional)

UMTS/GSM module (optional requires add-on card)

512 MB NAND Flash (optional)

integrated SD card reader

RTC clock

Serial port, 8-wires

I2C and SPI/I2C buses

passive cooling

U-Boot 2009.08

Notes: the SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time.

Price: the exact price will be announced when the board is available to the user (due the varying USD / EURO exchange rate) it will be in the range of EUR 600 - 650. The board will NOT replace the Sam440ex-flex board.